A lease on life for Ford plant The St. Paul Ford plant has received a two year reprieve. The plant that makes Ranger small pickup trucks was slated to shutter in 2009. But now there appears to be a market for the lighter pickups.

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The Ford Ranger, like this one for sale at a dealership in Inver Grove Heights, is made at the company's assembly plant in St. Paul. Ford has announced it will keep the plant open an extra two years, until 2011.
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